If you really have trouble searching for and finding a parking space and you live in Belgium here is an important piece of advice, the solution for your car parking problems. These brilliant but not practical solutions come from a Belgian bus company, which is trying to send a message for promoting public transport as a solution for the car parking problems.
The absolutely free of charge solutions come up as parking your car on top of the bus or another one is parking it on the bottom of the canal. The bus company has also come up with a diving company called Cardive, which has divers who offer to dump your car at the bottom of the canal! The divers from the company roam across the cities distributing free bus tickets with maps for the bus network.
For reaching out to those car drivers who do not prefer the public transport modes, the company has several radio commercials included in the campaign. The radio commercial also updates you with numerous clever solutions of the parking problem. It devices use for asphalt spray, which will act as a camouflage making it invisible for the police personnel. This solutions only drawback is that you will have to remember the exact location of your car as you may also get despised as the police.
Another one of them is the use of a flat tire kit, which comes with a phony flat tire and an inflatable dummy, as to fool the ticket authorities, looks for them as if you are replacing your flat tire, the last one is using a View-master making parking guards believe that you have parked it on the right spot.
A survey report for among 4000 of the De Lijn customers reveals that every two out of three car users make use of public transport to avoid parking space troubles and for the cities this amounts to even 90% of the users. Survey report also shows that around 39% of the public transport to go shopping.
Well, enough of these advices and talking on real terms, using public transport not only reduces parking trouble but also helps saving fuel reducing traffic on roads and contributes in efforts to reduce global warming. All this, just by the use of public transport; seems like a fair deal to me.
[Source: CJreport]
